Sims v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 2018 · most notably 511 So. 2d 526 - Rogers v. State (1987), 525 So. 2d 833 - Grossman v. State (1988)
30 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Swansboro Country, Inc. v. Lumberman's Mortgage Co. · Oliphant v. Suquamish Indian Tribe · Wingo v. Wedding · Union Labor Life Insurance v. Pireno · 283 So. 2d 1 - State v. Dixon
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a jury's consideration of a defendant's failure to testify ... is a matter which essentially inheres in the verdict itself.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Devoney v. State · Reaves v. State“[s]ince these words were used by a defense witness and did not specifically refer to a prior conviction, we find that this vague reference to other possible criminal activity was not so prejudicial as to require a new trial.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Sims v. Singletary“The general rule in Florida is that a juror's testimony is relevant only if it concerns matters which do not essentially inhere in the verdict itself.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Sims v. Singletary
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.